State on With Eager Feet

(Solo) Wells State Park – Sturbridge

Mon, 13 Oct 2014 01:40:19 +0000

With my wife and daughter out of town, I had to make a decision on how to spend my Sunday afternoon: watching the Patriots beat up on the Bills, or hiking on a beautiful sunny October day?

Fortunately, I have the technology available to solve this problem — a DVR! Safe in the knowledge that I could watch the Pats any time on this Sunday, I was free to explore other options.

Moore State Park – Paxton

Sun, 05 Oct 2014 22:51:32 +0000

Two trips in one weekend? Definitely!

With the weather improving greatly, we decided to take another day hike, this one with our daughter. Jess suggested Moore State Park in Paxton, which she had stumbled on in the past when researching hiking locations in the area. We’d driven past it several times when driving North on Route 31, but never stopped.

Our daughter enjoys hiking but prefers geocaching to a vanilla hike. Knowing we’re headed to a destination and that once we get there we’ll find a box full of goodies gives her incentive to keep moving. There are several caches hidden at this park, and with that carrot dangling ahead of her, we packed her up and headed North.

Wells State Park – Sturbridge

Sat, 20 Sep 2014 20:48:09 +0000

Our lovely daughter has a gymnastics class that takes up a few hours mid-day on Saturday. Even after pausing for lunch, we still have some time to get in a hike (or run some errands, or clean the house, but you know, hiking makes for more interesting blog posts), which is what we did on this day.

We’ve explored Wells State Park a few times since we moved out here, but we hadn’t been in a few years. You can check out the trail map on the state web page here.